PAGES is calling for applications from scientists to serve on its Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) from January 2018. The SSC is the body responsible for overseeing PAGES activities. Scientists serve on the SSC initially for a term of three years, with the potential of renewing for an additional term. Three positions are available for this call. Application deadline: 3 April. Read more: http://pastglobalchanges.org/about/structure/scientific-steering-committee/apply

ICDC10 (Interlaken, Switzerland, 21-25 August 2017) will be organized around themes and "Grand Challenges" that integrate across different reservoirs, ecosystems and disciplines. The overarching goal is to elucidate how human activities, including fossil fuel emissions and land use, influence the coupled carbon-climate system. Contributions from natural and social scientists and from all disciplines addressing the global carbon cycle and its anthropogenic perturbation are invited. Abstract deadline: 28 February. All details: http://www.icdc10.unibe.ch/

PAGES' Floods Working Group would like to assemble a worldwide overview of the existing (published) flood records based on historical or natural archives. This metadata collection will serve to promote all these records to a broad community (through the FWG website and at the OSM). It will also serve as a first step for the database project of the FWG and as a basis for a review paper on flood reconstructions. Read more and find out how to submit your findings: http://pastglobalchanges.org/ini/wg/floods/intro

i. The Future Earth community, and those wishing to join this global community, are invited to propose sessions for the International Conference on Sustainability Sciences Conference (ICSS), August 24-26, 2017, through the Future Earth Knowledge Action Networks. The call is open to all. However, Future Earth asks that each proposal becomes connected to Future Earth, formally or informally, through one of the Knowledge Action Networks for which your session proposal is best fitted. Where a proposal spans a number of Knowledge-Action Networks, simply select on and highlight which other KANs areas are addressed. Proposals that span more than one KAN are welcome.Deadline for session proposals: 28 February. http://pastglobalchanges.org/download/docs/pdf/icss-17-call-sessions-kans.pdf

The Working Group I (WGI) Co-Chairs of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) together with the WGI Technical Support Unit have invited PAGES subscribers to be involved in a questionnaire to elicit input on the structure and content of the Working Group I (the 'Physical Science Basis') contribution to the forthcoming IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, i.e. the WGI AR6 report.

Completed questionnaires should be returned to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 17:00 CET Friday 17 February. Respondents should fill in the form using a PDF viewer (e.g. Adobe Reader), and save it as a PDF within such software (e.g. File > Save). Additional background and instructions are provided in the cover letter on the first page: http://pastglobalchanges.org/download/docs/pdf/wgi-ar6-prescope-quest.pdf

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